Helen's Genealogy Journeys - Tracing My Ancestors Around the Globe

Flying Officer Charles Anderson During the weeks leading up to this year's remembrance of the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th, 1944, I was drawn into the drama, tragedy, and pivotal importance of this day for the allied forces in Europe. I knew however that I wanted to research what was happening on the India/Burma front at that time.  The reason for that is that my dad,  Charles Anderson, with the 11th Squadron of the Royal Air Force, was stationed in India at that time. He was a pilot flying a Hawker Hurricane ll C.    The Battles of Kohima and Imphal, which my dad took part in,  took place between April 4 and June 22, 1944.   It is interesting to me that, while the allies were landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 (eventually pushing Hitler's troops back over the territories that they had recently captured), so too allied forces in India were also fighting to stop the Japanese advance into India and eventually to push th...